Chandelier.



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OHANDELIER.

. APPLICATION FILED 00123, 1912.

Patented Mar.25,1913.

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ROSCOE R. LESLIE AND WILLIAM H. I-IOLLOPETEB, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

CHANDELIER.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, Roscoe R. LESLIE and WILLIAM II. HoLLoPn'rnR, citizens of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Chandeliers, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to chandeliers.

The object of our invention is to provide a chandelier in which the lighting unit or units may be turned through an arc to reverse their position with regard to the direction in which their light rays are thrown, in order that in one position the light rays may fiow downward and in the other position they may flow upward, thereby providing for direct and indirect lighting, either or both.

Our invention contemplates essentially any suitable controllable and limited yieldable connection or mounting of the light unit in the chandelier structure so that it may, in practice, be fully capable of the operation of reversal; and with this in mind it is plain that our invention is susceptible of various modifications of construction and arrangement without affecting its scope or identity, though as the preferred form of the invention we herein illustrate it as applied to an arm, of what may be termed a cluster chandelier, by a special connection.

In the accompanying drawings to which reference is hereby madeFigure 1 is an elevation (broken) of a chandelier, partly in section, showing but one arm and indicating by dotted lines the reversed position of the lighting unit. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the yieldable joint. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail of the same. Fig. 4L is a cross section of the same on line ww of Fig. 3.

The chandelier here shown is, in the main, of common type involving the canopy 1, the stem 2, the body 8 with its bottom knob 4, and a plurality of arms, one only being here shown, indicated by 5. It will be understood that each of the other arms is like the one shown and similarly mounted as we shall presently describe.

The outer extremity of the arm 5 carries the socket 6 in which is shown the electric cord 6, and the lamp 7. It also carries the shade holder 8, and the shade, the body of which is 9 and its reflector 10. The reflector 10 may be supported in any suitable manner.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 23, 1912.

Patented Mar. 25, 1913.

Serial No. 727,345.

It is here shown as resting, when upright, on the blocks 9 of the shade-body 9, and when inverted it is prevented from dropping out by the angle ring 10 of the body, the outer rim of the reflector bearing on said ring, as shown in Fig. 1.

It is intended, in accordance with our invention that the lamp 7 together with its reflector shade shall be turned through an arc in a vertical plane, so that from the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1, wherein the light rays are directed wholly upward to the ceiling, these parts may be turned to a position shown in dotted lines, in which the light rays flow downward into the room. The necessary joint or hinge connection for the attainment of this result finds its best location between the arm 5 and the body 3, and said joint in point of control and limitation of movement is best made as follows Screwed into the interior pipe 11 of the chandelier structure and lying wholly within the body 3, as is indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. l, is a short sleeve 12, shown particularly in Figs. 2, 3 and 4:, in which the end of the arm 5 is movable both rotatively and in the line of its axis. In the sleeve wall near its end is made a slot 13 having, as shown in Fig. 4, a length equal to half the circumference of the sleeve. This slot has lock-notches 14: at each extremity. In the arm 5 is a stud 15 in the shape of a small screw which plays in the slot 13 and is locked in the notches 14. A spring 16 within the sleeve is arranged to so hold the parts that the stud 15 lies in normal engagement with the notches 14, and when this is the case, the arm is locked in either position with its lighting unit up or down. To reverse the lighting unit, the arm 5 is pushed in slightly to release its stud 15 from the lock-notch I l and to carry it into the slot 13. The arm may then be turned through 180 degrees and when released the spring 16 will relock the hinge or joint. This connection affords not only a simple and inexpensive yieldable joint or hinge, but one which is not liable to become disarranged or to suiter injury or to become inoperative through ignorance or careless handling. It is also self limiting and self locking, and, moreover, is neat and workmanlike, being Well out of sight, so that in all particulars it fills the requirements of a chandelier intended for the embodiment of our invention.

1. A chandelier having a body; an arm of said chandelier carrying at its outer end a light source and associated means for directing the rays of said light source; a sleeve secured to the body of the chandelier and having the inner end of the arm revolubly and slidably fitted within it, said sleeve having in its wall a seini-circumferential slot with lock notches at its ends; a stud on the arm adapted toplay in said sleeve-slot, and to lock in. its notches, whereby the arm may be turned on its aXis to reverse the light source and its associated ray directing means; and a spring in the connection for holding the stud in the lock notches.

2. A chandelier having a body; an arm of said chandelier carrying at its outer end a light source and associated means for directing the rays of said light source; a sleeve secured to and lying wholly within the body of the chandelier and having the inner end oi the arm revolubly and slidably fitted within it, said sleeve having in its wall a semi-circuniferential slot with lock notches at its ends; a stud on the arm adapted to play in SZIlCLgSlQGVG-SlOt, and to lock in its notches, whereby the arm may be turned on its axis to reverse the light source and its associated ray directing means; and a spring in the connection for holding the stud in the lock notches.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

.ROSCOE R. LESLIE.

WVILLIAM H. HOLLOPETER. \Vitnesses WM. F. BOOTH,

D. vl3. RICHARDS.

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